The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-23

t.h.t j,gsead of promoting the true in
1 1nas of Utah in all this special and
/ ciass Ieoislation has been pronounced
Won ', have found my constituents hon
ost for their reputation IN business
N arts is almost unexampled. You have
fond them industrious. Instead OF
following the prompting of reason ano
ernerience by throwing about them
tbpse safeguards which would enable
thom tn continue their work of enrich
inc this great nation-inStead of this, it
Is nroposed to bamper them still further
and by the most violent methods.
| fell YOU if we want our own people
ond the nations of the world to respect
! onr boast of Justice and our right to
oo-orn If we would have them love the
55rinciples of freedom We profess, we
must begin by manifesting some respect
and some love for free and liberal prin-
cipIes ourselves. Only by this means
can we inspire in others permanent
and abiding faith in our institutions and
in our loyalty.
NV constituents have suffered indig-
mites, insults and ostracism for years
almost uncomplainingly. They have
been despoiled of character by paid as
sassins-apd by assassins 1 mean those
that are vilest, who rob women
and children of that which
alone gives value to life and
my people have asked in vain for justice.
| They have been misruled by men sent
| from a government that did not design
to be unfriendly, men who have been
| their enemies in every way but that
which gives the garb of honor to enmlty.
and my people have submitted. They
have been tainted, and by wicked and
reasonable designs have been tempted
to assume a position of open and
avowed resistance to the government,
and the attempts have failed; yet
charges of defiance and treason have
been entered against them which were
shown to be false, and still there came
no redress for my people. One by one
their rights-and those rights which
give a community its reputation, its
better, its immortal parts-have been
wrested arbitrarily u them, and still
my people have app ID for justice and
raised opposition o. by tho0e means
which the Constitution has provided.
A whole nation, if the words of blatant
men prevail, is arrayed against them
determined upon their destruction, and
this determination is gradually crystal
liking in the acts of Congress, and yet
the appeal of my people is to consti
tutioDal means and to these alone. This
is the disloyal people of Utah!
L tell you. Mr.. Speaker, I tell you
solemnly, thatin the United States, in
the whole world, there is no people more
loyal to the eternal truths of liberty, as
expressed in the Constitution of this
country, than my constituents; and
there will come time time when the
mists which now befog the understand
ing of the American people and its leg
islators, when the refuge of lies erected
by characterless charlatans shall have
been swept away, there will come such
a time when my words will stand forth
marked, clear and bold and untarnished
as their truth justifes.
Gentlemen, ask you to pause. For
your own sakes you can not afford to
take step which is determined upon
by such insufficient and unrustworthy
testimony. 1 am here more than a
pleader. l speak for myself; and l
pledge my word and my character that
the statements upon which this legisla-
ton is based are without foundation in
fact. You cannot afford to pursue a
policy which is determined upon the
destruction of people whose only fault |
is, at worst, that they pursue the hap
piness of themselves and their fellows
by methods which are different from |
your own. Time, the great c6rrector of |
all evils. will right this wrong, if such |
it be, and the fat of the Eternal has |
already decreed that the last vestige of |
shall be swept away by the |
peaceful progress of events, if it be not |
that which God in His wisdom has ap- |
pointed shall survive as the fittest.
Gentlemen, you who have freed from |
bondage the negro slave, you who love |
liberty and cherish the institutions of |
our country, who would beqneath them |
fair and unsullied to your children, let |
me plead with you, let me beseech you,
not to consign my people to such in
human slavery. Loud applause.
During the delivery of Mr.. Gaines |
remarks his hour expired.
Mr. Collins said:-I take the floor for
the second hour in my own right, and |
yield to the gentleman from Utah such |
time as he may require to finish his
speech.
The Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Van
gentleman from Utah
will proceed.
lfr, Game resumed and concluded his
The Speaker.-The gentleman from |
Massachusetts, Mr.. Collins1 has thirty |
minutes of his time remaining.
Mr.. ColtnS.-I yield to the gentleman |
rom North Carolina Mr.. Bennett, my |
colleague on the committee.